[Magdalen] Bishop, please resign

[Jay Weigel]

She could probably do COBRA until the next signup period and then sign up
for ACA/Obamacare like any regular person.....or is she just too good for
that? Pardon the snark, but apparently she must think she's above all that.

On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 3:36 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Actually, Heather, I think she could get insurance under COBRA for 18
> months. I had to do that at one point.
>
> > On Jan 29, 2015, at 1:48 PM, H Angus <hangus at ctcn.net> wrote:
> >
> > "the cowardly
> > and vaguely pitiful attempt to hold onto the shreds of a once-successful
> > individual life?"
> >
> > As other USA people have said, she's doubtless trying to hang on to her
> health insurance, which is tied to employment here. It certainly shouldn't
> be, but it is.
> >
> > Without health insurance, she'd just have to show up at AA meetings like
> any ordinary schlub rather than go to an expensive-looking rehab center.
> >
> > I doubt she had much of a successful life if, as it appears, her
> alcoholism is very long-term. Behavior "this anti-social" does indeed come
> with long-term addiction, but it doesn't always result in the death of an
> innocent person, nor is the perpetrator generally in such a highly visible
> office. Selfish, self-serving behavior is standard for alcoholics, as any
> of my 12-step friends are perfectly frank about saying.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Sally Davies" <sally.davies at gmail.com>
> > To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
> > Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2015 1:36:15 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Bishop, please resign
> >
> > I know it's easy to say from far, far away but I'm thinking that if this
> > were my Diocese I would be less concerned with her bad behaviour and more
> > worried about the system that actually picked this very psychologically
> and
> > morally challenged individual to be a Bishop in the first place. When you
> > think how hard it can be to be selected for priestly ordination, and from
> > there to be elected Bishop...?
> >
> > Behaviour this antisocial does not come out of nowhere nor is it a
> > temporary aberration. It's not even a given for people who have
> addictions.
> >
> > There has got to be something VERY wrong with the process and that is
> > surely of more concern in the bigger scheme of things, than the cowardly
> > and vaguely pitiful attempt to hold onto the shreds of a once-successful
> > individual life?
> >
> > As to the question of permanence, I sincerely hope it isn't true "once a
> > Bishop always a Bishop". To be a priest is perhaps something different
> but
> > a Bishop is a functionary within a structure and if not in that
> structure,
> > cannot have a function. At least I hope not because there have been some
> > truly awful Bishops in our part of the world, far worse than Cook -
> Kunonga
> > in Zimbabwe comes to mind!!
> >
> > Sally D
> >
> > On Thursday, 29 January 2015, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com
> >
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Much as I bear most bishops scant love and while I acknowledge that Bp
> >> Cook is not part of my local picture, nonetheless I cannot stand in
> >> judgement.   My mother would have said, "The mills of the gods grind
> >> slowly, but they grind exceeding fine."   I think that most of us would
> not
> >> enjoy being the target of such judgement and I can be pretty darn sure
> that
> >> she is already feeling the fires of hell and doesn't need more.  But
> that's
> >> me.
> >>
> >> Marion, a pilgrim (soft on crime and a foe of our vengeful ways) ...
> today
> >> my sail I lift ....
> >
>